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Paulo Nuin
Biologist, bioinformatician, all-around nice guy (I think)
Nancy Pelosi defends possible jail time for those who refuse to buy health insurance (video); says imprisonment is "very fair". - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"Refuse"? What about those of us who can't bloody afford it?
- Bill Hooker
How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Report: Schumacher to return, race for Mercedes - http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009...
@marcoscarvalho acho que nao ha comparacao, pois aqui nem se fala dos dai. Brasil e nota de radape aqui, no jornal
@marcoscarvalho aqui, incluindo Canada, ela e vista como uma idiota, abaxo do nivel de Lula, Dilma, etc
Twitter account of a 9 year old - http://www.reddit.com/r...
jsLaTeX: A jQuery plugin to directly embed LaTeX into your website or blog - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Relative prices of different liquids... - http://origin.reddit.com/r...
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Every time I install a new cartridge on a printer, I can smell the rip-off
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Last time I bought a printer I was pleased to find how far prices had dropped... then my wife explained the "business model" to me.
- Bill Hooker
Also, we usually don't factor in all the test, cleaning and aligning pages that waste a considerable amount of ink.
- Paulo Nuin
More on the business model from Network World: "What's Cheaper: Replacement Ink, or a New Printer?" http://www.networkworld.com/news...
- Peter Murray
MIT Media Lab Director Aims to Transform Healthcare - http://www.xconomy.com/boston...
Do you want anti-cancer drug in junk food? - http://www.thestar.com/news...
Anti-Vax movement among worst ideas of the decade - http://www.reddit.com/r...
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Canadian's Nobel prize challenged - http://www.thestar.com/news...
The world’s hardest (for native English speakers) languages - http://www.economist.com/world...
Sarah Palin kicked out of hospital fundraiser in Canada. Palin has said that "Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit" - http://www.reddit.com/r...
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It's amazing how some US citizens can be so blind to not see where market economy fails... free market requires buyers to be able to decide, "no, perhaps when you lower your price..." But it just does not work like that for health care... or housing... there does not exist something like a free market when basic needs are involved...
- Egon Willighagen
health care, housing: these are 'constrainted' markets... you just can't decide, no, let's not have a new kidney this year and wait until the market is better... no, let's use boxes this year until the house prizes have dropped a bit again...
- Egon Willighagen
Egon, you have put your finger on the worst thing about the US (imo, as a recent immigrant). It's not so much that citizens are so blind as that the kleptocracy in power understands your point completely, and completely does not care. Government of the people, by the rich, for the rich... I just hope for the revolution to be a "velvet" one when it comes.
- Bill Hooker
@Egon, I'm hardly an expert on policy issues, so I don't pretend to necessarily know best, but market failure doesn't necessarily mean a non-market solution is best; if anything it suggests that the focus should be in finding a way to establish a competitive market as to prevent a government from having too much influence over private citizens. Some ideas that I'd like to see evaluated...
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- Benjamin Tseng
Problem is that consumers lack the specialized skill to properly evaluate health care choices that means an expert ie The Gov must mediate the choices and provide regulations to preent the consumer from being unwitting victim same as they license doctors and lawters they must regulate teh healthcare indistry
- WarLord
"given that the American system "works" broadly speaking" -- that stretches "broadly" to breaking point imo. Have you ever "been without health insurance" (honest term, "failed to pay the required protection money") in the US?
- Bill Hooker
@Bill, I'm not going to pretend the American system is perfect (b/c it isn't), but almost all employed people in the US have healthcare that they are satisfied enough with such that they're not willing to take their chances on a public option; that doesn't mean I condone the failings of it with regards to access or equity, nor does it mean I wouldn't experience hardship if I lost my job...
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- Benjamin Tseng
@Benjamin, fair enough -- I can't pretend to be a policy or market expert either. I am also not exactly an impartial observer, being for the moment without health insurance in the US! (I spent my first 30 years in Australia, so my experience of a public option is that it has its problems too, but nothing like the massive systemic failures of the US system in its current form.)
- Bill Hooker
@Bill, I'm sorry to hear that :(. Does your employer not provide coverage? I thought you were at a biotech firm?
- Benjamin Tseng
"When there's a problem with your car engine, you fix the engine, you don't necessarily replace the whole car" Unless the engine was damaged because another part of the car is malfunctioning due to being poorly laid out. Many people can't switch coverage because of "pre-existing conditions" even though their current insurance is severely lacking in coverage and customer service. The...
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- Heather
Benjamin, I can point to a specific example (and I have always been covered and found the US system substandard). When you go to the ER, you could get billed the full amount for an emergency procedure, just because the doctor you saw wasn't contracted with your insurance company at that particular ER. Last I checked, when you go to the ER for an emergency procedure that's not what you...
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- Deepak Singh
@Benjamin -- we're working on it. I should have said "temporarily" or similar. Can't explain in detail -- public company disclosure blah blah blah. Suffice to say I'm not being exploited, and didn't want to give that impression!
- Bill Hooker
“Nerd” and “Geek” Should Be Banned, Professor Says - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
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Methinks the prof doth protest too much... :)
- Benjamin Tseng
what a nerd
- Frank
What Frank said.
- Bill Hooker
Author name disambiguation in MEDLINE - http://www.citeulike.org/user...
ACM Trans. Knowl. Discov. Data, Vol. 3, No. 3. (2009), pp. 1-29. Background : We recently described “Author-ity,” a model for estimating the probability that two articles in MEDLINE, sharing the same author name, were written by the same individual. Features include shared title words, journal name, coauthors, medical subject headings, language, affiliations, and author name features (middle initial, suffix, and prevalence in MEDLINE). Here we test the hypothesis that the Author-ity model will suffice to disambiguate author names for the vast majority of articles in MEDLINE. Methods : Enhancements include: (a) incorporating first names and their variants, email addresses, and correlations between specific last names and affiliation words; (b) new methods of generating large unbiased training sets; (c) new methods for estimating the prior probability; (d) a weighted least squares algorithm for correcting transitivity violations; and (e) a maximum likelihood based agglomerative...
- Paulo Nuin
How to Cure 1 Billion People?--Defeat Neglected Tropical Diseases - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article...
"...Court documents including Zuckerberg's Harvard application and personal web diary, unearthed during the discovery process and published in Harvard alumni magazine 02138 last year, portrayed him as arrogant and willing to do anything to reach the top..." - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Girl who fought to sail around world missing - http://www.thestar.com/news...
Kenneth Reitz: Why Ruby Scares Me - http://kennethreitz.com/blog...
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